Workman&#39;s time-recorder.



No. 69|.252. l iamm"Jn. I4, |902.

H. uvson.

WOHKMANS TIME RECORDER.

: (Applicatinn led June 25, 1901.) (No Model.) l 4 sheets-sheet 0M www Patented 1an. I4, |902.

H. DYSON. WORKMANS TIME RECORDER;

(Abplication med June 25, 1901.)

4 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

No. e9|,252. Patented la.- I4, |9o2.

H..DYSON.

WDRKMANS TIME RECDBDEH.

(Application filed June 25, 1901.)

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(No Model.)

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No. 69I,252. Patented lan. 14, |902.

H. DYSON.

WORKNIANS TIME RECORDER.

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' UNITED STAT-Es PATENT EFICE.

HARRY DYSON, OF `LOOHWOOD, HUDDERSEIELD, ENGLAND, AssieNoR OE THREE-EOURTHS To JOSEPH sHAw GAUNT, OE MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

WORKMAN'JS TIME-RECORDER.

SPECIFIGATION formingl part of Letters Patent No. 691,252, dated. January 14, 1902.

Application filed .Tune 25, 1901.

. one of which is constantly operatedby means of clockwork, to which they are connected in such a -Inanner that their arrangement shall always coincide with the actual time indicated by the clock,such type-arranging mechanism being y used for printing the time through an inking-tapeonto a strip of paper,

upon the exposed part of which the workman employed or other person operating the mechanism is also required to sign his name; but certain portions of the said improvements are also equally applicable to other checking and recording machines wherein lthe partic-` ular workman or other person is indicated by the stamping of a number or other distinguishing-mark on the said stripof paper instead of by his autograph. 4

Themanner in which my said invention is to be performed orcarried'into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the four sheets of drawings hereunto annexed and the following'explanation thereof. Figure 1 is an end view, Fig. 2 a back view, Fig. 3 a plan View, and Figs., 4 and 4a vertical sections, of my improved apparatus.

Figs. 1i, 1b, 1X, and 2a are details thereof.

I may here remark that when in use this apparatus is `inclosed in a casing, partly shown in Fig. 4, which conceals the mechanism and effectually prevents itfrom being tampered with.

1 is the main framing of the machine; 2, the paper strip; 3, the inking-tape; 4 5, the

,type-Wheels', and 6 the impressionnhammer.

The machinel is operated by means of a rocking handle 7, projecting outside the casing and keyed upon a'shaft 8, extending from side to side of the machine'. On this shaft 8 near the handle is fixed a lever 9, projecting SerialNo. 66,030. (No model.) t

upward, which as thehandle 7 is drawn forward first comes against a hanging lever or lrripper V10 on one end of the hammer-shaft 11, which carries a leverprovided with a hammer-head 6 (above the type-wheels 4 5) and raises' the same up, this movement beingresisted by a spiral spring 12, Fig. 2, the upper end of which'is connected to ashort lever 13 on the end of the hammer-shaft 11 farthest from the handle 7, and its lower end is connected to a similar lever 14, fixed at thesame end of the handle-shaft 8. As a result of this tensioning ofthe spring 12 the handle 7 and the hammer-shaft are returned to their normal positions upon-releasing the handle. The intermittently-moving inking ribbon or tape 3 passesfrom side to side of the machine between the upperside of the type-wheels 4 and 5 and the under side of the hammer 6,

and between the under yside of the inkingribbon and the face of the said type-wheels there is also` a strip ofpaper 2, lwhich is advanced a certain distance each timev that the before-mentioned handle 7 is drawn forward, so that each time thehammer 6 falls it causes the exact time to be printed upon that part of the paper strip 2 which is beneath it at the moment, which strip 2 is then caused to advanceI as the hammer 6 springs back.

There is in the outer casing, a portion I-I of which is shown in Fig. 4, a longy slit or opening; but normally this opening is closed by a l curved shield or screen 15, whiciroccupies a position between the opening and the paper. This shield 15 is removed at the time that the dated strip of paper 2 -is advanced, and the workman or other person 4is thenrequired to Write thereon his name, (orotherwise place his distinguishingmark,) thereby indicating his actual presence at the particular time stamped on the paper strip 2, and when he releases the handle 7 the screen or shield t5 is drawn forward again by means of a spring 16 `at the opposite end, (see Fig. l, Sheet 1,)

so as to conceal the paper until the handle is again operated upon.

The making of the impression, the forward movement of the paper strip, and the withdrawal of the paper shield or screen are performed in the following manner: As the han- (lle-lever 9, before mentioned, is drawn for- IOO ward, but before its upper end escapes from the hanging lever or tripper 10, allowing the hammer 6 to fall, the said levery 9 comes against a stud or roller 17, projecting from the face of a horizontally-sliding bar 18 (see Fig. 1) and carries the latter forward with it. On this sliding bar 18 is fixed an inclined plane 19, which after the hammer 6 has fallen comes against a reversed incline 2O on a tailpiece attached to the rocking lever2l, which carries the screen 15 and causes the said screen to be lowered, so as to expose the stamped or dated portion of the paper strip 2 to be signed or marked, as before stated. At the same time a click 22, carried by the forward end of the sliding bar 18, acts upon a ratchet-wheel 23, which engages with the winding-on spool 24 and draws the paper forward. As the handle 7 on being released is drawn back again by the spiral spring 12 the handleiever 9 comes against another projection or stud 25 on the sliding bar 18 and draws itbackinto the former position. The spring 16, before named, draws back the screenor shield 15. A square projection 26 on the said bar at the same time takes up a position against the lower end of the pivoted screen l5, thereby locking the screen or shield 15 and concealing the paper. (See Fig. 1.) Instead of this arrangement I propose sometimes to dispense with the spring 16 by providing the piece 26 with a pin workingin an angular slot in the rocking arm 2l, as shown at Fig. 1b, the shape of the said slot serving not only to give the rocking motion thereto, but also to lock and release the same. The paper 2 is mounted upon two spools 24 and 28, one at the back and the other at the front of the machine. One of the supports of the latter is provided with a spring 29, acting as a drag to prevent the paper 2 from being jerked forward too far, and the front spool 24 is caused to turn a portion of a revolution at intervals, so as to advance the papera certain distance after each impression by means of the ratchet 22, before mentioned, carried by the forward end of the sliding bar 18, taking up one or two teeth (at each forward motion of the bar) of the ratchet-wheel 23, which is connected Ato one end of the taking-up spool 24. On the boss of the minute-wheel 5 is fixed a cam or snail 30, (see Fig. 4%) against which the upper end of a lever 31, 'fixed on a rocking-lever shaft 32 beneath the type-wheels, is held by a weighted lever 33 or by a spring. 4As the minute-wheel 5 revolves, the snail 30 raises the lever 3l until it has reached its highest pinwhich allows it to drop, and the action of the weighted lever 33 (or spring) causes the working catch 34, hereinafter mentioned, to advance and move the hour-wheel 4 one tooth or division. On the rocking shaft 32, before mentioned, is keyed a lever 35, extending upward and carrying'at its upper end a loose working catch 34, which acts upon a squarenotched wheel 36, connected to the boss of the hour type-wheel 4, so that each time the shaft 32 is caused to rock the said catch 34 causes the notched wheel 36 to move one tooth. A second catch 37 is hinged by one end to the rocking lever 35 and rests upon the shaft 38, upon which the type-wheels are mounted, and this catch 37 is cranked or furnished with an inclined plane 37* underneath, so situated that when the lever 35 and catch 37 are moved forward the latter falls over the end of a iinger 39, in connection with the square-nosed locking-catch 40, which latter takes into the teeth on the under side of the notched wheel 36 (being kept in by a spring 411) and holds the hon'r type-wheel 4 fast until the minute-wheel 5 has completed a revolution; but as the rocking lever 31 moves backward the second named catch 37 depresses theA locking-catch 40, and the inclined plane 37* on the catch 37 then acting against the shaft 38 raisesv the catch 37 off the top of the finger 39'and leaves the lockingcatch 40 free to fall and allows the top or working catch 34 to turn the notched wheel 36 one tooth, and so advance the hour type-wheel 4 one hour, and the locking-catch 40 then falls into the next notch.

The inking tape or ribbon 3 (see Figs. 1 and 3) passes on each side of the machine over a roller 4l,then downward under another roller 42, and its ends are fixed to two drums 43 and 44 at the back of the machine. These two drums are mounted loosely upon a shaft 45, which is capable of sliding endwise and is caused to revolve intermittently by means of a catch 46, carried by the handle-shaft 8 and acting upon the teeth of a ratchet-wheel 47,.carried upon the said sliding shaft 45. Upon each outer end of the said sliding shaft and outside each drum is keyed adisk-wheel 48,wi.th a projecting pin` or stud 49 on its face next to the drum, which latter is provided .with a corresponding disk 50, drilled with holes so that by sliding the shaft 45 endwise it can be locked to either of the drums 43 or 44 at the same time that it is unlocked from the other, or any other suitable clutch may be employed. On the center of the sliding shaft 45 is a fixed sleeve 5l, having a projecting flange at each end, and working between these two flanges is a pin 52, projecting upward from a slotted link 53, the other end of which is jointed near the center of a rocking lever 54, the outer ends of which extend beyond the frame 1 on each side. The slotted part of the link 53 wor-ks upon a pin 55, fixed between the joint and the outer end of the link.

The side of the rocking lever 54 opposite the joint is providedwith an arm 56 at right angles thereto, and at the extremity of the arms a pin 57 projects upward or downward, which is connected by a spiral spring 58 to the pin 52 on the forward end 'of 'the link which works between the flanges before named, thus forming a sort of spring togglejoint, so that when the said lever 54 is caused to rock as soon as the toggle-levers have IOC' IIO

passed the central line the spring58 pulls them over and causes the lpin on the forward end of the link to act upon the fianges of the sleeve 51 and move the sliding shaft 45 so as ribbon 3 is being wound from one drum to the other it passes through these splits, and at a few inches from each end (which is fastened to one or other of the drums 43 and 44) a button B or plate too thick to pass through the slit in the lever is fixed. (See Figs. l and 1X.)

Supposenow that the right-hand drum is winding on and the left-hand drum is letting off and the rockingzlever 54 is in such aposition that its left-hand end is nearest to the letting-0E drum.V As soon as this drum becomes nearly empty, the button or plate near the end of the tape 3 comes'against the end of the rocking lever 54, and as it cannot pass through the end of the slit it draws the lever 54 along with it until the toggle-linksl pass the central line, when the coiled spring 5S immediately comes into action, throwing the rocking lever 54 over into the reverse position, thus sliding the shaft endwise through the drums 43 and 44, so as to lock the left-hand drum (which is nearly empty) and unlock the right-hand drum, (which is nearly full.) The action being thus reversed, the inking tape or ribbon 3 commences to move in the reverse direction, and so on alternately.

I'claim as my invention- 1. A workmans time-recording apparatus, comprising revolving type-wheels, a shaft therefor, a snail on the shaft, a locking-lever, levers 35 and 3l operatedy by the snail to release the locking-lever upon each revolution of the snail and to advance the before-locked type-wheel, a second lever 37 on the lever 35 freely pivoted thereto and having an incline resting on the shaft, a catch on the end of the lever adapted to engage the locking-lever when in a forward position, but adapted to be drawn off said catch by rising on its incline when moved in the other direction, substantially as described.

' 2. In a workmans vtime checking and recording apparatus, the combination with the revolving'type-wheels of rocking-shaft 32, lever 35, loose working catch 3 4, square-notched wheel 36 connected' to the boss of the hour type-wheel, of a second'catch-lever 37, a lever 3l, a snail on the minute-wheel to actuate it, said catch-lever 37 resting upon the shaft of the hour type-wheel and having an inclined plane 37:, so situated that when the lever 31 and catch 37 are moved forward the latter falls and engages a locking device, consisting of a nger 39 and a square-nosed catch 40 to act on the teeth of the said wheel 36 to lock the type-wheels fast and to release them when the required change is to be made, substantially as described. y

V3. A workmans time checking and recording apparatus, comprising an operating-handle, a shaft therefor, an opening and a screen therefor, `a paper-reel and a ratchet therefor, in combination with a sliding bar and means to operate it from the shaft of the operatinghandle, said bar carrying means to operate the screen and also carrying means to operate the ratchet of thepaper-reel, substantially as described.

4. A workmans time checking and recording apparatus comprising an operating-handle, a shaft therefor, an opening and a screen therefor, a paper-reel and a ratchet therefor, in combination with a sliding bar and means to operate it upon the movement of the hanto operate the said screen when moved in one direction, and a block to lock said screen against moving when in its normal position, and a pawl on the rod to operate the paperreel ratchet, all substantially as described.

5. In a workmans time checking and recording apparatus, type-wheels, an impression-hammer and lever therefor, a trippinglever 10, a handle and a shaft therefor, a lever 9 on the shaft and adapted to abut against the tripping-lever l0, when the handle is drawn forward and a spring adapted to return both the parts to their normal position upon the release 0f the handle, substantially as described.

6. A workmans time checking and recording apparatus comprising type-wheels, hammer, Screen, paper-reel and ratchet therefor, a ribbon-feed and a ratchet and two ribbonwheels therefor, a handle and shaft therefor, a trip mechanismvfor the hammer, an operating and locking device for the screen and pawl mechanisms to operatethe ribbon and paper feed, all operated from the handleshaft, in combination with a pivoted lever having forked ends through which the ribbon is adapted to pass, enlargements on the ribbon,of greater widththan the forked ends,and a spring-operated clutch mechanism adapted to selectY either of thee ribbon-wheels to turn dle-shaft, said bar carrying an inclined plane,

Ioo n IIO with the ratchet, said spring mechanism in 4two subscribing Witnesses.

HARRY DYSON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE DAvIEs, JNO. IIUGHEs. 

